JAVAWUG BOF 39 JavaFX tm : A RIA Solution To Reinvogorate Your Desktop Birds-of-a-Feather 39 Tuesday, 29 th July 2008 Skills Matter, London, UK Dear All I would like to formally announce that JAVAWUG (Java Web User Group) is holding the Thirty Ninth Birds-of-Feather (Meet-up 39) at Skills Matter on Tuesday, 29 th July 2008 from 18:30 until 20:15. Title: JavaFX: A RIA Solution to Reinvogorate Your Desktop Speaker: Peter Pilgrim Talk This talk will be an introductory and overview of the Compiled JavaFX tm , which is Sun Microsystem's attempt to (re-)enter the Rich Internet Area space. JavaFX is competing with the other top two RIA solutions, namely: Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe Flex. Why should you, as an enterprise software developer, now get into JavaFX tm ? JavaFX is different, because it integrates with Java. You have the freedom to use open source and commercial Java libraries. The JavaFX Compiler and the Run-time are open source. You can compile and build them yourself. It has its own declarative language for defining user interface elements instead programming with XML. JavaFX has a default profile that builds on the Swing components, which is already known to experienced Java SE programmers. JavaFX can playback video and audio files for the first time ever with the forthcoming Java Media Component (JMC) apis. AJAX is fine for a lot of applications, but as more richer functionality is required then a true RIA solution may ju ...
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JAVAWUG BOF 39 JavaFX tm : A RIA Solution To Reinvogorate Your Desktop Birds-of-a-Feather 39 Tuesday, 29 th July 2008 Skills Matter, London, UK Dear All I would like to formally announce that JAVAWUG (Java Web User Group) is holding the Thirty Ninth Birds-of-Feather (Meet-up 39) at Skills Matter on Tuesday, 29 th July 2008 from 18:30 until 20:15. Title: JavaFX: A RIA Solution to Reinvogorate Your Desktop Speaker: Peter Pilgrim Talk This talk will be an introductory and overview of the Compiled JavaFX tm , which is Sun Microsystem's attempt to (re-)enter the Rich Internet Area space. JavaFX is competing with the other top two RIA solutions, namely: Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe Flex. Why should you, as an enterprise software developer, now get into JavaFX tm ? JavaFX is different, because it integrates with Java. You have the freedom to use open source and commercial Java libraries. The JavaFX Compiler and the Run-time are open source. You can compile and build them yourself. It has its own declarative language for defining user interface elements instead programming with XML. JavaFX has a default profile that builds on the Swing components, which is already known to experienced Java SE programmers. JavaFX can playback video and audio files for the first time ever with the forthcoming Java Media Component (JMC) apis. AJAX is fine for a lot of applications, but as more richer functionality is required then a true RIA solution may ju ...